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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 21 Feb 2001

Vol. 531 No. 1

Adjournment Debate Matters.

I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Ring – the up-to-date position on a school in County Mayo, whether an extension or a new school building will be provided to alleviate the overcrowding and the progress made in this regard; (2) Deputy Rabbitte – the need to address the difficulty being experienced by primary schools in west Tallaght in attracting trained teachers and the exodus of trained teachers from schools designated disadvantaged; (3) Deputy Owen – the need for additional funding for voluntary schools for cleaning, secretarial, caretaking and insurance services; (4) Deputy Creed – the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 817 tabled for written answer on 30 January 200 and the information contained therein which shows that the level of funding received by Cork County Council is discriminatory and entirely inadequate; (5) Deputy Fitzgerald – the need for action to address the crisis in child care places; (6) Deputy Gormley – the continuing noxious smells from the DDDA site at Sir John Rogerson's Quay which are causing sore throats, headaches and nausea for those in the Pearse Street area, and the need for the Minister for the Environment and Local Government to introduce proper and separate legislation for the remediation of contaminated sites; (7) Deputy Perry – the need to condemn works being undertaken at and around megalithic tombs at Carrowmore, County Sligo; (8) Deputies Penrose and McGrath – the long delay by the Department of Health and Children in processing the project report on phase 2B of the Longford Westmeath General Hospital; (9) Deputy Deenihan – the closure of Celtic Circuits Limited, Listowel, County Kerry, and the resulting job losses; (10) Deputy Jim Higgins – the decision by Iarnrod Éireann to suspend one of its managers pending the outcome of investigations that he received gifts from Advance Pitstops and also accepted trips from the company which supplies products to Iarnrod Éireann, and the ongoing investigation by An Post into the unauthorised acceptance of similar hospitality from the same company by a senior An Post official; (11) Deputy Moynihan-Cronin – the urgent need for the Minister for Education and Science to provide a full-time care assistant for Kilcummin national school, Killarney, County Kerry; (12) Deputy Kirk – the need for Comhairle na nOspidéal to urgently consider the application made to the North Eastern Health Board to have additional consultants appointed to the maternity unit of Louth County Hospital; (13) Deputy Shortall – the urgent need to completely refurbish St. Canice's boys' national school, Finglas, Dublin 11, in view of its current poor condition; (14) Deputy Shatter – the urgent need to provide new classrooms and a library for the 1,500 pupils attending Knocklyon primary school, Dublin 16; and (15) Deputy Coveney – the need to introduce a mandatory ID card scheme for young people to assist in controlling the problem of under age drinking in Ireland.

The matters raised by Deputies Rabbitte, Moynihan-Cronin, Fitzgerald and Kirk have been selected for discussion.

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